Elvis to star in charity auction (From This Is Wiltshire)

Elvis to star in charity auction

5:04pm Monday 13th November 2006

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ELVIS is expected to top the chart once more at a charity auction being held on Friday night.

A Cherry Records receipt signed by The King himself could be the biggest fundraiser of the night at the auction of 85 film, sport and music memorabilia items being held on behalf of Larkrise School, in Trowbridge.

Organiser Julie Decarteret said: "We have had a fantastic response and we are hoping to top £2,000. I think we will get a good price for the Elvis item whatever happens."

Other big names to feature in the lots of signed photographs, shirts and other items include Pirates of the Caribbean stars Orlando Bloom and Johnny Depp, top bands the Kaiser Chiefs and Coldplay, Clint Eastwood and Ronnie Barker.

Sporting stars Shane Warne, David Coulthard, Jenson Button, Freddie Flintoff and the Bath Rugby team have also given their support and their signatures.

The auction is the brainchild of Ms Decarteret, 42, and her friend Dave Neville, 39, and they have organised the whole event, including shelling out for the memorabilia, themselves.

It is the second auction evening the pair, both committee members at the Trowbridge Trades and Labour Club, have organised.

They were inspired after they were approached by the Friends of Trowbridge Hospital to hold a quiz night at the club to raise funds.

From that the friends, both keen sports fans, came up with the idea of holding a sport memorabilia auction also raising funds for the hospital.

The event, held in May, was such a huge success, raising more than £1,600, they immediately began organising a second.

For the first auction all the items, more than 40, were donated.

But this time around they, along with Ms Decarteret's partner, Darren Starr and daughter, 15-year-old Kirsty, have been going to memorabilia sales and trawling internet auction site, ebay, as well as contacting people for donations.

The items on sale can be viewed at the club, in Stallard Street, from 7.30pm tonight with bidding due to start at 8pm.

Entrance is £2 and a buffet is included.

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